Thank you so much for sharing. This was such an amazing view of the final destination of a ship. I'm surprised at how fast the entry speed is and how relatively little noise the ship makes when it finally is up on the beach.
Thanks so much for sharing this interesting event from the perspective of the wheelhouse. I sailed on three ships that eventually met this same fate. Kind of sad in a way, to see something like a ship that served so well meet this end, but that's the economics of the shipping industry. Again, thanks so much!
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That was amazing. Sad as well, but we can't keep everything. I imagine it is very interesting breaking one of these huge vessels, as well as being quite dangerous too!! Great video.
Now that's what I call a cool job! I sure would like to see some more videos like this one. Maybe you can do a time lapse of the entire trip from picking up the ship to beaching it.
I’m sure it’s mostly because depreciation makes this decision easy, but it’s also not outside the realm of possibility that many ships, particularly those like this one which operate in oil and gas (a heavily regulated industry), are subject to restrictions and regulations that essentially force them off the sea before their true finish date.
It's just freshly painted outside. But inside structure of the ship may heavily destroyed by corrosion. To scrap and build new one is much cheaper than repair this.
Klattu, In Bangladesh it is! And extremely toxic,lot's of unchecked dangerous materials going directly into the water and ground,would make Flint Michigan's water seem like artesian well water!
Recently I saw a documentry about what was called, Shipbreaking. Or else I would not understand this so well. When I was in the US Navy on a WW II ship, we had radar, a sloppy steering system and the gyro compass. But not all the advanced equipment this ship has. So it looks like a waste to scrap this ship. But I know there is more involved than meets the camera's eye. Thanks for an interesting video with good narration.
2014: Icon Capital has sold the 95,700-dwt EAGLE OTOME (built 1994) at $474 per ldt, it is claimed. The price translates to $7.42m for the owner. The vessel, one of 11 ships controlled by US based Icon, collided with a Kirby Corp barge and a Gearbulk vessel in the Sabine-Neches Waterway in 2010.
@@johnchalleen3278 is that what I meant my comment? No it's not, Because people are poor other people take advantage of them, pay them a bad wage is even a wage at all make them work crazy hours and provide them with no PPE
No thought at all given whatsoever to dry docking these ships and dismantling them. Cost too much money I'm sure💲💲$$. The social justice Warriors need to go to Chittagong.
Wonderful video , so interesting to see from the bridge view , shame to see a lovely ship make its last trip and to think its engine and systems will be shut down for ever , a legacy for all those who crewed and maintained the ship through out its life .
Thank you for sharing your experience. You make a good description of the details. I assume it is Gaddani in Pakistan from GPS points of Screen in ship.
Tanker closing to beach and he's showing the monitor. Not once, not twice, but EIGHT times. Man, we believe the speed when you tell it! Just show the action.
Interesting video but I would have liked it better if you had keep the camera looking out the window as you gave a narration of the ship's speed and its distance from the beach. The view out the window is better than the view of the computer.
Seems absolutely amazing to me when I see this that this ship, which seems to be in good working order with full navigation equipment and working machinery and enough power to run it aground.....has a value less than it's weight in scrap metal. Simply amazing. They are building new ships at a fast rate and cutting up these seemingly perfectly operational ships for scrap.
What year car do you drive? ;) If f your car is newer than 1995 then YOU are doing the exact same thing for the exact same reasons. Do you see many 1980's cars on the road? Why not?
@robajohnson I get the point you're trying to make but people now days buying new cars don't realize they wont last nearly as long as their 1980 counterparts, these companies are billion dollar companies that would rather build a new ship to last another 50 years than to rebuild and update the old one for the next 20 years for the same price. just say that. stop with the shitty car analogy.
This is criminal. The oil company who last owned this ship should have been held accountable for its safe dismantling. A really big change in the law is required.
Why would the previous owners be held accountable, these ship breaking yards take out loans to buy the ships from companies when they are ready to retire. So the ship-breaking yard owner should responsibility and they need to be held accountable for the break down of the ship.
I think it’s sad that a ship that seem perfectly operational has such disrespectful end. The work, the hundreds of thousand of kilometers travelled across seas through storms to connect countries around the world is sad to me
Tankers have a very short service life compared to many other ships (i.e. there's loads of old liners from the 60s still in use today as cruise ships). I suspect it's due to the nature of their cargo. The ships are essentially giant hollow double-skin tanks, that carry incredible weights of oil. As the hull is so hollow, and carrying so much weight (the opposite to an ex-liner, which is all structure and no cargo), this means it has tremendous stresses acting upon it, particularly as they spend their life in open ocean rather than in relatively sheltered waters (like, say, a ferry or cruise ship). As such I would guess that there's a lot of fatigue in the hull even after a relatively short life.
It's not his ship. Old ships are first sold to agencys in charge to sell them again to the scrapyard. The crew which then beaches the ship is doing this every day with other ships.
Ship appears to be in good condition. It is so sad that the vessel is going for recycling to avoid the running and maintenance cost due to present down market situation!
Adam Edward I was thinking the same. How difficult can it be to max the throttle and aim towards the land. The only difficulty is taking care not to hit the other ships from behind.
A normal lifetime for a big ship is between 20 and 30 years depending on its use. This ship, "Eagle Otome", a 95,663 DWT oil tanker built in 1994 was scrapped already in 2014. The main reason why they aren't in service for a longer time is the enormous stress to long hulls, caused by rough seas, that cause the hulls to suffer from metal fatigue.
Everything looks nice and clean and working, wonder what the real junk looks like? Wonder if their air bags are going to deploy on beaching impact? I was hoping to hear the big air horn, damn.
gymnrat Lives it's called metal fatigue. this monster have been to sea for 23 yrs. scrap it before it breaks in half and causes an environmental disaster. that ship not worth the risk of a sinking. I'm guessing that oil tankers have a much lower service life than others. I'm no expert but it makes sense to me.
While I can appreciate the Metal Fatigue scenario, 23 years does NOT seem a long enough time for a ships service life in My opinion ..especially when others run for longer
gymnrat Lives theres videos out that will show how much those ships twist and bend, then there's the rust issue. they are built to take that but only for so long. would like to hear from an engineer on this matter.
I wonder where all that oil sludge, asbestos and the rest of the toxic goes once they chop up the ship into manageable pieces for their steel foundry ??
Its quite strange for me to read comments from folks being concenered about how all this is done while the big shipping companies of west do all this and employ cheap labour to increase profits?like reality doesn't exist in first world?
This is a great career these people are so lucky to work here in these safe conditions where the pay is great I hope my children get this opportunity support ship breaking yards💪🏻
You are delusional. Working in such an area is very dangerous. There are documentaries that show how workers are exploited and die all the time. Just look it up on RU-vid.
Wonder where the brass bells these ships have on them are located, so far I haven't seen any pics but assume they hang outside the bridge. I bought one that came from an oil tanker built in 1993
could be any number of reasons that would make it unviable to keep. maintenance wise is only part, if it doesn't meet new safety standards it could be extremely expensive to retrofit it to meet the standards, operating costs compared to value of ship and it's future earning potential. etc
I know there is a purpose here and all ships eventually meet an end. But it still makes me sick to see a vessel of the open seas cannibalized like this.
@@theenzoferrari458 It's accurate. A lot of the equipment in the ship will wind up as cheap grey-market equipment to keep other ships in smaller 2nd tier fleets going. A lot of small operators skimp and buy equipment for breakers - esp on ships registered with flags of convenience. And yeah, it is kind of sad - a lot of ships I have a close attachment to have wound up on the beaches at places like Alang.
